Ontario Premier Tells AP Canada Should Be Ready To Cut Off Electricity To U.S.

Ontario Premier Tells AP Canada Should Be Ready To Cut Off Electricity To U.S.Ontario Premier Doug Ford has told The Associated Press that Canada should be ready to cut off electricity and critical minerals to the U.S. if the trade war between both countries worsens.“He underestimates Canada. We’re all in,” Ford, who leads Canada’s most populous province, said of President Donald Trump in an interview Monday. “Up here, we’re at a fever pitch, everyone’s in for an economic war. They know they’re going to have to sacrifice.”Last year, while advocating for both countries integrating their energy grids, Ford said Ontario could “flick off” Canadian electricity as far south as Florida, at “a moment’s notice.”Latest Live UpdatesOntario Premier Doug Ford Spars With Trump As Trade War Escalates: 'Kiss My A**'Ontario Premier Doug Ford escalated his feud with President Donald Trump on Monday, telling the president to “kiss my ass” as the U.S. and Canada spiral deeper into a messy trade war.“I have a lot of real estate on my ass, so he has a lot of room to kiss my ass,” Ford, who leads Canada’s most populous province, told reporters.Trump has launched a wave of aggression at Canada after trade negotiations collapsed over the weekend, imposing a 50% tariff on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods that include agricultural products, construction materials and manufacturing parts. The president warned on Monday that he would also increase tariffs on all cars and trucks to 50% starting Jan. 1.Read more:US Set For Largest Mass Visa Revocation In History Targeting Up To 200,000 Foreigners, Officials SayThe Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States. If it happens, the move would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in U.S. history and would likely face legal challenges.Unless challenged or revised, the State Department is expected to announce in the coming weeks the revocation of so-called B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 whose holders have sought asylum or are now seeking asylum, according to State Department documents obtained by The Associated Press and two U.S. officials. The action will be taken in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security.Read more from The Associated Press:Breaking UpdateSupreme Court Clears The Way For Trump Move To Restrict Mail-In VotingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to move ahead with his executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much his administration can implement before the fast-approaching midterm elections.The decision appears to leave room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump’s order. And with some states beginning to send mail ballots to voters in just a few weeks, time is running short to impose major changes.Read more from the Associated Press:Wyoming Senator: Americans Don't Want Foreign Beef!Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) is pushing back on President Donald Trump’s plan to allow cheap ground beef imports to be sold without country-of-origin labels.“Americans want US beef on the table — not foreign imports,” Barrasso wrote Monday on X. “Wyoming ranchers produce the highest quality beef in the world. Our ranchers don’t ask for special treatment. They simply want a fair marketplace. It needs to be easier — not harder — for Wyoming ranchers to feed America. I will continue to fight for policies that strengthen Wyoming beef producers and invest in the American cattle herd.”Last week, Trump announced the U.S. will allow 300,000 metric tons of trimmings for ground beef to be imported without tariffs in an effort to lower beef prices for Americans and to allow U.S. cattle herds to grow. Some Republicans balked at this plan because, without labels, consumers won’t be able to tell the difference between U.S.-grown and foreign beef. Oops! 'Technical Issue' Knocks CNN Off Air For 30 MinutesSomeone get Wolf Blitzer — there’s a bit of a situation to attend to.CNN was knocked off the air Monday for around 30 minutes, an eternity in broadcasting time, and attributed the break to a “technical issue across Warner Bros. Discovery.”CNN media analyst Brian Stelter described the broadcast during the disruption as little more than “pixelated blocks of color and fragmented on-air imagery” until anchor Dana Bash broke through the static around 12:30 ET.“Welcome back, and we ARE back,” Bash told viewers. “There was a technical issue across Warner Bros. Discovery’s channels that resulted in losing our signal. We’re very sorry for the interruption.”>> @DanaBashCNN just acknowledged the CNN outage on air: "Welcome back and we ARE back. There was a technical issue across Warner Bros. Discovery's channels that resulted in losing our signal. We're very sorry for the interruption." pic.twitter.com/sEc7wnm3xB— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 24, 2026Canadian PM Rallies Country Amid U.S. Trade War: ‘We Have All We Need Right Here’Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada is “ready” to meet whatever economic challenges lie ahead after he suspended trade negotiations with the U.S., saying: “We have all we need right here.”“That’s not to say there won’t be challenges in the road ahead, but we’re ready to meet them because we have all we need right here,” he said at a press conference Monday. “Building at home and diversifying our trade abroad, that’s not plan B, that’s been our plan A from the start.”Carney went on to tout Canada’s broader international trade partnerships and expansions, including with the European Union, which President Donald Trump has also taken aim at.“This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world’s second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership,” Carney said.Carney made the comments while announcing the production of six new icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard. This follows his pledge to ensure Canada’s ability to protect its Arctic territory without relying on another country for support..@CanadianPM Mark Carney: "The goal of our trade negotiations with the United States has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame...we did make some progress in recent weeks, in the end that momentum reversed and we could not… pic.twitter.com/EnSuPgowPb— CSPAN (@cspan) August 24, 2026JD Vance Slips, Says ’Canada Is A State’Vice President JD Vance slipped up during a set of remarks delivered Monday in Maine as he touched on the ongoing trade war that his boss, President Donald Trump, picked with Canada.Vance, forever defending Trump, asserted that Canada is in the same league as China on trade policy with the U.S.“I would not expect that from Canada. We have to remember, Canada is a state — sorry. Freudian slip,” Vance said, prompting laughter from the audience.“That was actually an accident,” he added.“Canada is a country that has under-invested in its military, that would quite literally get invaded by a foreign country would it not be for the umbrella of protection provided by the United States of America,” Vance went on.Canadians have responded to Trump’s tariffs and talk of absorbing their nation into the United States with boycotts of American goods and cross-border travel.Abdul El-Sayed Puts Out Statement Distancing Himself From Hasan PikerMichigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed put out a statement Monday distancing himself from Twitch streamer Hasan Piker in response to Piker suggesting Jewish Americans could bring violence on themselves by supporting Israel. “I believe all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence,” El-Sayed said in the statement on his campaign website, which specifically said it was in response to Piker. “My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own daughters,” El-Sayed said. “Antisemitism is a scourge, and we need to address it in all its forms. And I stand against any rhetoric that puts the community at risk.”In a clip from Piker’s stream highlighted by Mike Rogers, El-Sayed’s Republican opponent, Piker said, “If Jews in America keep putting this this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone’s going to come around and take action not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews.”“Absolutely DISGUSTING,” Rogers said. “If Abdul El-Sayed had any courage at all, he would call this out and disavow Hasan Piker once and for all.”Piker campaigned with El-Sayed during the Democratic primary but told HuffPost last week he has no further campaign events planned. He said accusations of antisemitism “couldn’t be further from the truth” and pointed to his support for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is Jewish. El-Sayed stressed Piker doesn’t actually speak for his campaign. “And while politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, we’re going to be talking about gas, groceries, good schools, and healthcare,” El-Sayed said. Treasury Sec. Announces ‘Operation Economic Outcast,’ Targeting IranTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a new round of economic sanctions against Iran Monday as the war neared its six-month mark, dubbing the effort “Operation Economic Outcast.”“Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone,” Bessent said in a statement announcing the sanctions.Writing in The Financial Times, Bessent said digital assets, technology, gold, aviation and shipping with Iranian links could all be targeted, implying that other countries that still trade with Iran might be fair game.At a press conference shortly after, however, Bessent was unable to say specifically which countries might be sanctioned, or when.“We’ve found the best way to engage through countries is quiet diplomacy,” Bessent said, in apparent ignorance of almost every other diplomatic effort undertaken by President Donald Trump. “We know who they are, they know who they are.”Alan Eyre, a former American diplomat who helped negotiate the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, told NPR it’s unclear the effort will bear fruit.“There are no new sanctions that are effective,” Eyre told the outlet, noting that the U.S. has already targeted “the low-hanging fruit, the mid-hanging fruit, the high-hanging fruit, the tree.”Read more:Trump Urges Ignorance After Poll Shows He’s Underwater In 47 StatesPresident Donald Trump implored his followers not to believe their lying eyes after the latest polling body blow showed he’s deep underwater in 47 of 50 states.“The Radical Left Democrats are going CRAZY with Fake Polls,” Trump wrote on social media Monday. “They’re putting them out at levels never seen before.”Trump was likely reacting to a YouGov/Economist poll released last week that sought to break down his net approval rating on a state-by-state basis, with brutal conclusions.The Economist found Trump had a negative approval rating among “adult citizens” everywhere but in Idaho (+9), West Virginia (+6) and Wyoming (+14).Everywhere else, including in some critical swing states, it’s a bloodbath.In Georgia, Trump’s approval rating stands at -31, according to the Economist’s numbers. It’s -25 in North Carolina, -23 in Arizona, -27 in Nevada, -27 in Michigan, -26 in Pennsylvania, and -28 in Wisconsin. All of those states except for North Carolina voted for Trump in 2024 after voting for Joe Biden in 2020. (North Carolina narrowly voted for Trump in 2020.)(It’s slightly more rosy for Trump if you only count 2024 voters. That smaller pool of respondents shows Trump’s approval is negative in “only” 39 states — but he’s flailing in all the aforementioned swing states.)Trump, however, disavowed the numbers as no more than a “demoralization operation,” describing it as a conspiracy “where they try to demoralize Republicans so that they don’t go out and vote.”“The actual Polls are tremendous, and the Spirit in our Country has never been higher,” Trump bluffed.On Monday’s episode of “Morning Joe,” co-host Jonathan Lemire broke down the numbers.“My expert analysis on that polling is: it’s real bad,” he said.See All Updates